Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Arkapadapa in India is the name of a plant defined with Azadirachta indica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Antelaea azadirachta (L.) Adelb. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· African Journal of Traditional, African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (2006)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1835)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006)
· Blumea (1948)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1984)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Arkapadapa, for example chemical composition, diet and recipes, health benefits, pregnancy safety, side effects, extract dosage, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Arkapādapa (अर्कपादप).—Name of a plant (nimba); another tree (ākanda).

Derivable forms: arkapādapaḥ (अर्कपादपः).

Arkapādapa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms arka and pādapa (पादप).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Arkapādapa (अर्कपादप).—m.

(-paḥ) The Nimb tree, (Nimba or Melia azadaracta.) E. arka, and pādapa a tree.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Arkapādapa (अर्कपादप):—[=arka-pādapa] m. the tree Melia Azadirachta Lin, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Arkapādapa (अर्कपादप):—[arka-pādapa] (paḥ) 1. m. The Nimb tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Arkapadapa in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Arka, Padapa.

Full-text: Arkaparyaya.

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